Awards

Prizes

  • Award of Excellence in Sound Design, Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories, Toronto – November 2020
  • First Prize – International Composition Competition for Short Film “SiRAR” of the Aubagne International Film Festival, France – May 2011
  • Third Prize – G.E.R.M.I. Award International Composition Competition, Rome, Italy – December 2009
  • Second Prize – InNova Musica International Competition, Andorra – November 2009
  • Third Prize – International Competition of the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Milano – October 2009
  • First Prize – Contemporary Music Workshops (Athens Concert Hall) – January 2008
  • First Prize – Greek Festival of Chamber Music – December 2005

Nominations/Distinctions

  • Honorary Selection – True Story included at the retrospective collection of works of the record label WERGO ‘Sounds of WERGO’ including composers: John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi, György Kurtág, Morton Subotnick, Peter Eötvös and Toshio Hosokawa – May 2015
  • Honourable Mention – International Composition Competition OSSIA, New York, USA – February 2015
  • Finalist – International Competition Franco Donatoni, Milan – February 2013
  • Finalist – International Competition New Forum – Jeune Création, France-Germany – March 2012
  • Honourable Mention – International Competition Chengdu-Sun River, China – November 2011
  • Mention – International Composition Competition Antonín Dvořák, Czech Republic-South Korea – May 2011
  • Finalist – International Composition Competition Ville de Nice & Alpes Maritimes, Nice, France – 2011
  • Honourable Mention – ‘Free Style’ International Composition Competition, London, UK – November 2010
  • Mention – International Competition of the Italian Institute of Culture of Melbourne – June 2009

Collective Prizes/Nominations/Distinctions

  • First Prize – Best Family Game at Deutscher Computerspielpreis with Honig Studios for El Hijo Video Game – April 2021
  • Forbes’ Top 35 XR Installations Of 2019 with the creative team of Symphony of Noise VR installation – February 2020
  • Finalist – IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction, Amsterdam, with the creative team of Symphony of Noise VR installation – October 2019
  • First Prize – Gamescom Indie Award, Germany, with Honig Studios for El Hijo Video Game – September 2019

with Honig Studios Creative Team – for the interactive project Milli

  • Pädi Award – Educational Interactive Prize – November 2015
  • GIGA Maus Award, Germany – for artwork, story and music – October 2015
  • Red Dot Award, Germany August – 2015
  • Mobile of the Day Award –Favourite Website Awards April – 2015
  • Exhibit of the Day, USA – Communication Arts Prize April – 2014
  • Power to the Pixel, U.K. – Best Kids Concept Award – 2013

Scholarships

  1. September 2011 – Mai 2014 – Scholarship of the Onassis Foundation (Greece) for doctoral studies in composition in Paris
  2. September 2008 – August 2009 – Scholarship of the Greek Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers with the Greek Composers Union for doctoral studies in composition
  3. September 2006 – August 2008 – Alexandra Trianti Scholarship from the Athens Concert Hall (Union “Friends of Music”) for postgraduate studies in composition

Grants

  1. February 2018 – Grant of Japan-Greece Society for the participation at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Tokyo
  2. February 2013 – Grant of Impuls Institute for the participation at the Impuls Academy
  3. July 2011 – Grant of Acanthes centre for the participation at the International Workshop of Chamber Music
  4. July 2010 – Grant of Acanthes centre for the participation at the IRCAM International Workshop of Computer Music
  5. September 2009 – August 2011 – Grant of the Leventis Foundation (France-UK) for doctoral studies in composition
  6. May 2009 – Grant from the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council of UK) for the participation at the Sound, Sight, Space and Play International Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
  7. September 2006 – Grant from the Greek Ministry of Culture and the scholarship of Clinker Foundation for participation in the International Festival of Music and New Technologies Visiones Sonoras, in Mexico
  8. August 2006 – Grant from theInternationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt for participation in Darmstadt International Summer Course